Standard Lines

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or lines:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“His more memorable passages are as naturally bright as gleams of sunshine in misty weather. Nature furnishes him not only with words, but with stereotyped lines and sentences from her mint.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)